“Hunger: the biology & politics of starvation”

John Butterly, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute

Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center 

Co-sponsored by the Section of Infectious Disease/Global Health and the Department of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1. Participants will recognize the basic biological consequences of inadequate nutrition.
2. Participants will be able to identify the authorities that support the concepts of access to adequate nutrition being a basic human right and a basic human need.
3. Participants will recognize the difference between the two competing theories explaining the cause of famine in the modern era.
4. Participants will have a basic understanding for the biology underlying “man’s inhumanity to man.

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